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Health Data Research UK | New Board Members
Professor Sarah Harper has been appointed to the Non-Executive Board of Health Data Research UK. Together with the existing members, Sarah will share in the collective responsibility for t...
Sir Jeremy Heywood dies
It is with great sorrow that we learn of the death of Sir Jeremy Heywood. Sir Jeremy was a strong supporter of research and policy developments in the study of population ageing and played a ...
The ageing population | Sarah Harper on RNZ
Professor Sarah Harper discussed the impacts of falling fertility and increasing life expectancy on Radio New Zealand's National Programme Saturday Morning, a magazine programme with long-form,...
Second International Seminar on the Active Ageing Index
UNECE, the European Commission's DG EMPL, the University of the Basque Country, the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, with the support of the Government of Biscay (Spain), held a Second In...
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Minister for Social Care meets Institute's Paro
The Directors of the Institute presented Paro and discussed their research on the implications of therapeutic robots with Caroline Dinenage, Minister for Health and Social Care, and with the Depart...
Bizkaia Silver Week | Bilbao
Bizkaia Silver Week gathered in Bilbao-Bizkaia a week before the International Day of Older Persons, hosted symposia involving the key agents in ageing and quality of life, experts, institutions, i...
Life expectancy growth stalls | Sarah Harper
Professor Sarah Harper CBE comments on figures published by the ONS which shows that 2015 to 2017 saw the lowest improvements in life expectancy at birth in the UK since the start of their series i...
NWU | South Africa visit
In September, Dr. George W. Leeson visited North West University in South Africa at the invitation of Dr. Jaco Hoffman, an active member of the Collen programme. During the visit, Dr. Leeson spoke ...
Journal of Population Ageing | New Issue Alert
We are pleased to announce that the Journal of Population Ageing Volume 11 Issue 3 is now available online. In this issue (6 articles): Editorial Notes by Sarah Harper - The Lengthening of...
1st National Congress | Costa Rica
In August, Dr. George W. Leeson and Dr. Urbain Boutelegier attended the 1st National Congress organised by the Tejedores de Sueños Foundation in San Jose, Costa Rica. Attended by more than 5...
How young do you feel?
BBC Radio Oxford's David Prever interviewed Professor Sarah Harper CBE about life satisfaction at 60. Tune in to BBC Radio Oxford How young do you feel? to listen to Sarah Harper, 16 A...
Patients given 30 minutes to quit care home
An article in the Daily Express highlighting the poor treatment of older people in Britain emphasises the issue with research conducted by Fidelity International and the Oxford Institute of Populat...
Human Longevity | Kenneth Howse in Scientific American
Kenneth Howse comments on the limits of human longevity debate in a recent article “There’s No Limit to Longevity, Says Study Reviving Human Lifespan Debate” published in the Scie...
Population Horizons | 15(1) Issue
We are pleased to announce that issue 15(1) of Population Horizons is now complete and available online at Sciendo. Population Horizons is a forum for analysis and debate on ...
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Population time-bomb | Public lecture
Dr Hafiz Khan gave a presentation on ‘Population ageing in a globalised world: Risks and dilemmas as part of the University of West London’s public lecture series tackling pressing...